Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

By Tanya M. Peres

Book Overview

Issues and Methods for Integrating Data.- Methodological Issues in Zooarchaeology.- Methodological Issues in Paleoethnobotany: A consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases.- Simple Measures for Integrating Plant and Animal Remains.- Correspondence Analysis and Principal Components Analysis as Methods for Integrating Archaeological Plant and Animal Remains.- Case Studies.- Microbotanical and Macrobotanical Evidence of Plant Use and the Transition to Agriculture in Panama.- Waitui Kei Vanua: Interpreting Sea- and Land-Based Foodways in Fiji.- Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.- A Tale of Two Shell Middens: The Natural versus the Cultural in "Obanian" Deposits at Carding Mill Bay, Oban, Western Scotland.- Documenting Subsistence Change During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition: Investigations of Paleoethnobotanical and Zooarchaeological Data from Dust Cave, Alabama.- In the Light of the Crescent Moon: Reconstructing Environment and Diet from an Ottoman-Period Deposit in Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century Hungary.- The Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441909346
• ISBN13: 9781441909343
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"